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The recent cold snap that roared down from the north like the Four Frigid Horsemen of the Arctic Apocalypse should not have come as a surprise. Yet many of us w

Large amounts of snow and freezing temperatures pounded the Midwest in mid-January. Columnist Jerry Nelson reflects on snow, cucumbers, and the joy of homemade bread-and-butter pickles.

Here is a note from a longtime OP pal. You know me. They used to call me three trees, but Mother Nature culled my two siblings several years go, so I guess I am now alone – the Lone Ranger – sans Tonto. For decades, I presided over the point of...

Gray January is here, intent on submerging us under gloom.

On Dec. 27, 1950, happy faces of Park City High School band members emerged from bus windows, hands following to wave farewell. The band was off to perform at a prestigious event: the East-West Shrine Bowl, a nationally broadcast college football postseason all-star game.

See what happened on this date 100, 75, 50, 25 and 10 years ago.

Nextbigfuture commenter, Goat Guy, verified the resolution of very large hypertelescopes and optical interferometers.

This month has some of the latest sunsets but these are visibly earlier in the days ahead.

In this excerpt from "Raising Resilient Bees," authors and beekeepers Eric and Joy McEwen share some insight into how and why they rear queens naturally.

It seems proper this year’s Palm Sunday morning began with hot coffee and a song. The tunes had nothing to do with the traditional seasonal religious hymns and motets. Instead, Mother Nature provided a natural harbinger of spring. It began in the...